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A woman opens her front door as she is surrounded by water in Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A road block is set up at a flooded street in Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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A firefighter talks with residents in a flooded street in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011, as an extractor pump sprays water from the sandbagged area, protecting houses, back into the river, foreground. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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The road is flooded at a junction near Deux-Acren, 32 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Firetrucks and emergency vehicles are parked near a U.S. Postal Service mail facility in northeast Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. A fire department spokesman said a suspicious package reported at the mail facility was not a threat. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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A rescue worker walks among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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People walk among debris after landslides at Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing hundreds of people and leaving dozens more missing _ lives rescuers hoped to save as they resumed searches Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Cars sit in debris in a flooded street in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Roberto Ferreira, Agencia O Dia)
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People stand on the porch of their home at the edge of landslide damage in the Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Rescue workers search for survivors in collapsed homes destroyed by flooding in the Nova Friburgo municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential summer rains tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Gerson Goncalo, Agencia O Dia)
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People walk next to debris and a damaged car after landslides in the Caleme neighborhood in Teresopolis, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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People stand by the bodies of mudslide victims after heavy rain in the neighborhood of Caleme in Teresopolis, Brazil, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011. Authorities in Rio de Janeiro say 58 people have died in the mudslides and flash floods that followed torrential rain overnight. The mayor of the mountain town of Teresopolis just north of Rio said in a statement Wednesday that 48 people died, and more than 1,000 have been left homeless. (AP Photo/Paulo Cezar, Agencia O Globo)
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Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma chief at the University of Arizona, shakes hands with first responders from the Northwest Fire Department before a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Lennar is building 303 single-family homes at Martin's Chase in Ashburn, an 850-acre development in Loudoun County surrounded by more than 400 acres of conserved land. The homes have approximately 2,700 to 4,100 finished square feet, with base prices from $489,990 to $627,990.
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Ryan Homes is building 400 single-family homes on quarter-acre homesites at Fairwood in Bowie. The homes have 3,233 to 4,219 finished square feet, with base prices from $369,990 to $424,990.
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A police diver watches a car wreck outside the town of Grantham in South East Queensland, Australia, on Wednesday. The small town was hit by flash flooding causing mass destruction. (Associated Press)
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In the town of Kasserine, site of the bloodiest confrontation, cars have been set on fire and police were reported to have killed a man carrying the coffin of a child. On Monday, Tunisia temporarily shut down all of its high schools and universities as it tried to stop deadly riots over joblessness and poor prospects for youths. (Associated Press)
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A frame grab from video shows an aerial view of a mudslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Torrential rain tore through Rio de Janeiro state's mountains, killing at least 140 people in 24 hours, the state's emergency rescue office said. (AP Photo/TV Globo, Agencia O Globo)
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Icaris Celnet stands in the ruins of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011, the eve of the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people and displaced some 1.5 million more. Mr. Celnet lost his leg during the earthquake. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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A pedestrian walks along a street during a winter storm in Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Plows and salt spreaders hit the streets up and down the East Coast to stem chaos during Wednesday morning's commute as a storm that shut down much of the South churned northward and dumped several inches of wet, heavy snow. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
